GENERAL SHERMAN

In 1887 Saint-Gaudens made the well-known bust of Sher man, modelling it "with great care," as he said, in about eighteen sittings of two hours each. This bust supplied the basis for the portrait in the equestrian statue. The figures of Sherman and the horse were modelled in New York, as was the Victory (the latter being first modelled from the nude), and then the work was taken to Paris to be enlarged to its present scale and cast in bronze. The monument was unveiled in New York in 1903.